Category: Congress
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Russell Edwards is pretty smart
A quick update from God’s own country, Athens. Our regional embarrassment Congressman, Paul Broun is deigning to come visit Athens for a town hall. (Presumably, he’ll be wearing protective clothing, so he doesn’t get our liberal cooties all over him.) Smartly, his Democratic opponent says stay away from the crazy. Russell Edwards, the smart young…
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Jackass Saxby
On June 18th, Saxby Chambliss said the following in his weekly newsletter: “During a time of economic hardship, I don’t believe we should allow provisions such as the extension of emergency unemployment benefits to expire. But I do believe that Congress should find a way to pay for those extensions.” On June 25th, he repeated…
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SCOTUS Confirmation Hearing
AboveTheLaw brings a little humor to Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing by providing her top five quotes of day two. My favorite part? Lindsey Graham wanted to know how Elena Kagan felt about the war on terror (or “terra,” in his heavy Southern accent). He asked her where she was on Christmas day, when a would-be…
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More reasons to Love Congressman Lewis
Yesterday at GABEO’s summer session, Congressman Lewis took everyone on a Civil Rights history tour while he gave praise to Hosea Williams’ incredible work in the movement. Watch and learn: Part 1
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Come on People. We Need to Look at Ourselves.
What really puzzles me is that while the American public is busy pointing fingers at BP and voicing outrage over the disaster, we have yet to see our citizenry admit that we too are at fault.
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What Are They Putting In the Water?
Alvin Greene syndrome seems to be spreading across the country as another state Democratic Party is scrambling to cast out one of its primary-anointed nominees. To be fair, Kesha Rogers has been campaigning vigorously out there in her conservative Texas district, but it’s honestly hard to fathom that a LaRouchian could make such significant progress…